Running Django apps with nginx and uwsgi

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How to configure nginx and uwsgi to serve a Django application

Install

You need to install nginx, uwsgi and uwsgi-plugin-python (or uwsgi-plugin-python3)

Create nginx files

Create /etc/nginx/sites-available/project and create a link to it in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/project

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name domain.com;
    client_max_body_size 5m;

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/project.access.log;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/project.error.log;

        location /static/ {
                gzip_static on;
                alias   /home/project/static/;
        }

        location /media/ {
                gzip_static on;
                alias   /home/project/media/;
        }

        location / {
                gzip_static on;
                include uwsgi_params;
                uwsgi_pass unix:/var/run/uwsgi/app/project/socket;
        }
}

Create uwsgi files

Create /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/project.ini and create a link to it in /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/project.ini

[uwsgi]
plugins = python
home = /home/wille/.virtualenvs/projectenv/
chdir = /home/project/
pythonpath = ..
env = DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=project.settings
module = project.wsgi:application
touch-reload = /home/project/uwsgi_reload
LANG = en_US.UTF-8
max-requests=5000
socket=127.0.0.1:8084
uid = wille
gui = users
processes = 4
threads = 2

Execute touch /home/project/uwsgi_reload and remember to change the port in the socket parameter to each application you deploy.